![]() It's hard work (don't get me wrong, sometimes I long to go back to the safety net of being an employee) but I am getting there and I love producing beautiful designs in my lovely homely workshop. In September 2012 I launched Driftwood and Daisies Florist and I am so glad I did. I loved the teaching but was getting very uninspired marking heaps and heaps of assignments. During this year I started working at Eastleigh college teaching NVQ level 2 Floristry and oh what wonderful people I met there, both staff and students.Ģ012 saw me getting itchy feet. I had missed living by the sea more than I ever realised. In 2008, Hubby and I, and our two lovely boys, Tom and Will returned to the south coast, and back to where I left from 17 years previous, Hill Head. I knew I didn't want to spend six days in a shop with a newborn in nursery so I sold my share and started working part-time teaching Floristry at City College Manchester. I loved the feeling of opening up and thinking to myself, this is my shop (well, half of it!) But it wasn't long until our first boy, Tom, came along. In 2002 I went into partnership and bought a going concern called "Wild Orchid". It had a great team of fabulous florists and we all got on so well. I have such fond memories of working in this very busy florist. I would say "welke kleur" and if they answered in a colour I understood, everything was hunky dorey! If they started chatting freely to me I would say, with a desperate look on my face, "Ik ben Engels"!! What a fantastic experience though.īack to Manchester after 8 months and I got a job in my favourite florist ever, Barkers Florist of Timperley. I could understand the customers if they asked for a bouquet to a specific value. Having met a dutch man on my travels, it wasn't long until I moved to Holland, and again I was lucky enough to find a part-time job in a florist near Arnhem. I remember having to dip in and out of the cold store to cool down! Exotic flowers, such as Protea were a common flower in Australia, Irises were seen as something quite unusual! Here, I was very fortunate to work in a superb Florist in Rose Bay, Sydney. After a wonderful year of training I then decided to travel to Australia. I was 22 years old and from here my journey began. ![]() Heidi read it out and I thought to myself "I don't want to be stuck behind a desk anymore, I want to do something practical". Well, between 19 I was studying an HND in Community Studies up in Manchester (having left home to start a degree but failed the first year, took a year out then went on to start this course because I didn't want to come home!) I wasn't enjoying the course and my poor house mate Heidi* was bearing the brunt of it! One day we were flicking through the Manchester Evening News when she spotted an advert for an NVQ Floristry course at a local college. Who doesn't like receiving flowers and when you've made the design yourself the pleasure and rewards are priceless! If you would like to learn some basic flower arranging skills then why not click on Workshops to see if there is a venue near you. It is one of the most rewarding things I do in my flowery world and believe it is a skill that my clients will find very rewarding and get repeat pleasure from. I love teaching floristry and flower arranging and have been doing so since 2001. I want to get it right, and therefore is imperative that I don't miss a thing. My tribute guide will help you through this difficult time but I do feel it's best to have a chat at times like this. I really enjoy making these special designs and see it as an honour to do so. If you need to choose flowers to say farewell to someone then I sincerely hope I can help. Whether it be a simple 'thank you' bouquet or a personalised sympathy tribute such as The Allotment, your order will receive my undivided attention. I love putting thought into every bouquet and tribute I make, selecting suitable colours, shapes and textures. This style of floristry produces really boring and monotonous designs. ![]() The secret is, and it's not really a secret, that Driftwood and Daisies is an independent florist and so it is not bound to a catalogue of bouquets and arrangements with suggested quantity of stems to be included. It is a total pleasure making them and I love what I do. People often say to me, "your flowers are so different", "not the usual internet bunch"! What lovely words don't you think? I am truly grateful to everyone who has passed on their feelings about my gift bouquets, wedding flowers and funeral tributes. I want to help people convey messages to friends and loved ones with beautiful fresh flowers, but I don't want them to compromise on quality or style.
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